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Using the shear jamming transition within soft composite solids, non-reciprocal mechanics are achieved for the asymmetric spatiotemporal control of soft materials.
Alkene-terminated silicon carbide surfaces are proposed as a room-temperature divacancy spin qubit quantum sensor suitable for bioimaging and nanoscale nuclear spin sensing.
Human primary monocytes reversibly phase separate into regular, multicellular, multilayered domains on soft matrices with physiological stiffness due to local activation and global inhibition processes that occur during random cell migration.
Supercapacitors are fast-charging energy-storage devices. However, an understanding of how structure impacts high-power energy storage is still lacking. Here pulsed-field-gradient nuclear magnetic resonance measurements show that the pore network tortuosity, rather than traditional porosity analyses, in porous carbon dictates the speed of supercapacitor charging.
Individual spectral strain tuning of waveguide-coupled quantum dot single-photon emitters into a thin-film lithium niobate photonic platform is demonstrated, allowing quantum interference of two spatially separated quantum dot single-photon emitters.
Using crosslinked entanglement induced by weaving-inspired asymmetric nodes, flexible polyurethane and rigid epoxy polymers are efficiently integrated into a single multi-component polymeric network.
Reversible and unidirectional expansion of an acicular porous molecular crystal is observed with gas uptake. Using in situ structural and photomicrographic techniques, a molecular-level insight is obtained that correlates macroscopic linear expansion of the crystal to the application of gas-specific pressure.
Polymer-coated liposomes specifically target and deliver interleukin-12 to metastatic ovarian cancer, strongly sensitizing the tumours to combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
A focused-ultrasound-mediated mechanogenetics approach enables the genetic modification of cancer cells near solid tumours to activate chimeric antigen receptor T cell response and achieve tumour suppression at distinct sites.
Cobalt ions in different sublayers of the double-layered Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite Sr3Co2O7 are found to develop inequivalent ionic displacements, geometrically generating a polar state while preserving metallic conductivity and exhibiting antiferromagnetism.
Stability issues hinder the commercialization of perovskite solar cells. An evaporated, highly oriented wide-bandgap perovskite film is reported, enabled through an intermediate phase evolution, resulting in enhanced stability and efficiency.
The coexistence of frustrated magnetism and bond order is demonstrated in a family of antiferromagnets. Layers of dual frustrated orders are interleaved in the same crystal lattice, which presents an exciting possibility for engineering new responses.
Determining the feasibility of intergrowths between zeolites is investigated using high-throughput atomistic simulations and experimental verification. Interfacial energy is an effective descriptor for identifying the feasibility of zeolite intergrowths and a zincosilicate zeolite intergrowth with three and nine rings is realized by hydrothermal syntheses.
A domain-folding strategy is developed to assemble graphene into carbon fibres at room temperature, achieving ultrahigh strength and stiffness as well as greatly reducing energy consumption.
Viscoplastic surface effects in polymeric elastomers drive the development of sealing platforms with high hermeticity and large stretchability to safeguard stretchable electronics from degradation.
Garnet-type LLZO electrolytes are considered among the most promising solid-state electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries; however, numerous challenges need to be addressed before they are integrated into a cell. By precipitating amorphous zirconium oxide onto grain boundaries, increased ionic conductivity is observed and dendrite growth is suppressed.
A synthesis method mediated by laser-induced plasmon is developed to prepare subnanoscale high-entropy alloys, and a few such alloys display high stability for water splitting in proton exchange membrane electrolysers, operating at 2 A cm−2 for over 1,200 h.
An FeIII/V redox mechanism in Li4FeSbO6 on delithiation without FeIV or oxygen formation with resistance to aging, high operating potential and low voltage hysteresis is demonstrated, with implications for Fe-based high-voltage applications.
